Video: Latest Project: Jericho Ministries, Danli, Honduras

Check out this video our team put together from our latest project to serve Jericho Ministries in Danli, Honduras!


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Our landlord's father is a farmer that owns 2 oxen that seem to move all around the fields surrounding our house.  This morning, he brought me these bananas he had just picked.  They were so yummy.  I made banana crumb muffins this past Sunday, and they were sooo good, I think I'll make some more.  If you're interested in the recipe, here it is. It is listed as one of the top 20 recipes on allrecipes.com.  They really were delicious!!!!

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 bananas, mashed
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1/3 cup butter, melted
• 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon butter

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease 10 muffin cups, or line with muffin papers.
2. In a large bowl, mix together 1 1/2 cups flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, beat together bananas, sugar, egg and melted butter. Stir the banana mixture into the flour mixture just until moistened. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
3. In a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, 2 tablespoons flour and cinnamon. Cut in 1 tablespoon butter until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal. Sprinkle topping over muffins.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 18 to 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.

Home Sweet Home

My, my, my has it been a long time since our last post.  This Spring was so incredibly full of amazing experiences, both in ministry and personally.  We were able to do so much ministry together as well as have multiple experiences with family that were just incredible.  I would also describe this spring as a traveling season.  We, I, he, she traveled A LOT!!!  Every 4-6 weeks, there was some type of traveling to do, from busing it from Costa Rica up through Nicaragua and El Salvador to Guatemala to travels to see family near and far.  Finally, we are able to say we are home, sweet, home for a little while.  In May, we also moved into a new home.  During the time Josh's mom lived in Costa Rica, she lived in a small house at the end of the driveway of the house we had lived in since moving to Atenas.  When she moved, we made the decision to move from our house to the house she had lived in.  We felt it was a blessing, and now wish we had lived here earlier.  Although a smaller house, the living spaces are more open.  The house feels like it just fits us perfectly...although we are dog sitting a friend's great dane right now and it's been some growing pains of fitting 2 people and 2 great danes all in this small house.  Overall, we love it, and feel so blessed to have something that fits us so well, and is 1/2 the monthly rent.  One of my favorite things about the house also is that we live so close to our landlords.  Our landlords live in a house that is about 40 yards from our house, and their entire family live in houses on the property also.  It is as though we have been inducted into a communal family living environment.  It is not full on family living as they give us privacy.  But, it is so sweet when our landlord brings over queso tortillas that she just made or comes over, as she did this morning, to teach me how she makes beans.  I am really enjoying being connected to our neighbors and the family environment that we have moved into.  Here are some pictures of our new house: